Virginia Woolf is a sensitive person, and through Orlando, she presents a window of conflict, allowing the world to see, the portrayal of her inner world, the history of women's interpretation, and the history of human evolution.
Woolf never married and people attribute her feminist ideas, but what exactly is feminism? A thousand women have a thousand feminism in their hearts. What does Woolf want? What does she wish she was? From this perspective, Orlando is the ideal prototype in her heart: in 1600, Orlando, a young and spirited, pursued the purity of beauty, pursued innocent love, ignorant and fearless. Orlando in 1650, love poetry, about betrayal, about eternity. Orlando in 1700, visiting the East, the outside world is full of freshness and absurdity. Orlando being a woman, so cramped, I'm still me, but the world doesn't think that way anymore. As a woman, you have to obey the characterization of the society, so men can sway, even shamelessly pursue, possess, and enslave. So we see running, finding a way out in a maze, or dying. After that, a part of him/her becomes a real woman, because of the arrival of a man, or in other words, love and understanding, this person has gained the understanding and trust of women, and thus, he has obtained all of women. But he/she is Orlando, so he didn't get it all, he continued on the journey, waving goodbye to Orlando, the love eventually dissipated with the departure of the other individual. Orlando in the war, helpless but not fragile, weak but still strong, because of another life, he/she is no longer alone. Finally, there is a modern Orlando who, after more than 400 years, may have found the answer - the road to freedom and eternity, with the birth of new life, and hope is the North Star that leads to this road. What Woolf yearns for is far beyond the rights given to her by gender, so she can only receive the strange vision of society in her own era.
What is a women's victory? Women are no longer limited to physical genders, women are the evolutionary direction of human civilization, just like Orlando's snow-white or even pale complexion, women are full of the temptation of beauty and death, and also like Orlando's clear and innocent eyes, women represent ignorance and purity, review Our civilization, so similar, has struggled to evolve amid the ravages of barbarism, violence, and massacres, so gorgeous and so ruthless.
The next century will belong to women - reconciliation, sympathy, women reject war; care, love, women reject terror; ideals, beliefs, women seek not temporary conquest, but conversion, and eternity. Death, love, poetry, women, sex, fertility... This sequence begins with death and ends with rebirth. This is a victory for women, a victory for women over savagery, ignorance, and even over time, connecting the historical events of this sequence. , is Orlando, a person of unknown gender, unknown age, unknown identity, and unknown age.
I can't say I agree with or support Woolf, but at least Orlando let me see that, as a woman, how many times I can see my heart jumping with the same desire as Woolf.
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